Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter

TIMEX SINCLAIR USERS GROUP - MILE HIGH CHAPTER
OCTOBER 1991

C\O CURT CARLSON 601 S. GRANT ST. DENVER, CO. 80209

(303) 733-4391

MHTSUG seetings are usually the 3rd Saturday of the sonth.
NEXT MEETING SATURDAY OCTOBER 19, 1991 12 NOON

Location at Plate Park Logan St. and Mexico Ave.

MHTSUS saintains a sub-board on THE KINGS MARKET RBS.

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MILE HIGH TIMEX SINCLAIR USERS GROUP NEWS
MHTSUG September 21st MEETING. By Curt Carlson

This onths meeting was held at DON & SHORTY’S
Restaurant in Colorado Springs. A portion of the eating area
was arranged to set-up several QL displays. Roger Hunter
brought his QL that is packaged in a “custom prototype”
Case, Complete with disk drives, power supplies and separate
keyboard. Two other QL’s were connected and operating in a
network-gultitasking ode. Andy performed repair procedures
on ay new OL that was received with the keyboard membrane
ribbon broken. Both Jeff,s and ay OL was then placed in a
complete quality control function test as everyone stood by.
All is well now with our new @Ls. I now wil) spend aore tiae
learning to use it and configure it for æy printer and
aodea, An anouncesent was sent to the Springs Gazzette
newspaper telling of the seeting and inviting interested
persons to this aeeting, but never aade it to press.
Unfortunately no other local people arrived. Jeff had driven
his van with Fred Carpenter, and ayself aboard. I returned
howe around midnight in Denver and Jeff still had another 60
ailes to go to Fort Collins. We aust have been very tired,
but very glad to have so much inforeation and Sinclair
equipment to work with that our meeting was that long. Hope
to see aore new people at the picnic next sonth. -CTC-

TOS MODIFICATION HELP REQUEST

The presence of two MHTSUsers having 152068 operating
Floppy Disk Drive systems with TOS, has raised the need to
convert the comaunications software to address the serial
ports on these disk drives. If anyone knows what the changes
are to MTERM, or anyother aodem driver program that
addressed the TS2050 aodea, please let us know. Thank You.

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ANDY AND JEFF'S ADVENTURES IN OHIO
DAYTON OR BUST! By Jeff Anderson

It was on Wednesday the 24th of August that Andy
Hradesky called with the news that his °74 Fiat X1/6 Bertone
would be ready. Ready, that is to sake the one thousand cae
hundred and eleven aile trip to Dayton, Ohio - and back
again! The occasion being of course, a computer festival,
(COMPUTERFEST ’91 - DAYTON MICROCOMPUTER ASSN. INC.), that
would have, of all things, its own Sinclair table. Thursday
Morning Andy would retreve the Fiat from a shop, where the
sechanic had assured roadworthiness of such a grueling

Sia i Thursday afternoon we would leave, anticipating a
good hour drive, averaging speeds of - well, you figure

it out!

I arrived at Andy’s house Thursday afternoon, figuring
we would leave shortly. However, our excitement at
anticipating all the new and old Sinclair stuff we would be
seeing, caused us to go into a protracted session on Andy’s
QL. After four hours or so of demonstrations and
explanations, we finally hit the road. Andy’s wife and son,
Stephanie and Chris, waved goodbye as we pulled away in the
trusty Fiat. After a quick pit stop at the local hamburger
stand where we procured a whole sack full of - what else? -
generic burgers and fries, We were soon on the open highway.
Heading for the Kansas border, the air was wara, with the
Fiat’s top off, and the sky, clear and starry. Kansas proved
to be the aost difficult leg of the journey with its long,
monotonous stretches of curveless, flat interstate. We were
thankful for the burgers and fries during a couple of early
sorning pitstops. The Fiat seemed to be using to auch gas -

a check revealed a leaking fuel line. But what luck! The
first, “two horse", town we stopped at had a Napa parts

store open at the crack of dawn, We got anew line put in
and we were on our way again. Andy’s, Atari Portfolio, kept
track of our progress. It was costing about 4 cents to drive
a aile in the Fiat - not to bad!

Don Hawthorne
Owner Manager

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MEXICAN SOUTHERN ” FOODS

1629 Jetwing Drive Dine in or take out
Colorado Springs, CO 80916 591-8454

DAYTON OR BUST Cont.

Most of the day, (Friday), we spent traveling through
the state of Missouri, having left Kansas behind aid-
aorning. That left lllinois and Indiana to negotiate. At
about 9:30 PM (EDT) we pulled into Dayton’s, Days Inn, where
we had reservations. That was twenty-two hours after leaving
Colorado Springs. A bit longer than we’d anticipated, but,
we were still upbeat and ready to party! After eating at the
local whats it, we crused the town to see what it had to
offer. We stopped at a couple of places. It was getting late
and after eating at the local Ponderosa, we got some sleep
and were up in the aorning, ready for the fest.

We found the convention center awsome in size and

diversity. It took us about a half hour to find the Sinclair Í

section. The several tables had reps. and merchandise froa
aostly eastern and upper-aidwest shops and/or users groups.
CATS, the DC group, had a table, The Indiana group was
represented and Cleveland’s group had several delegates. Old
acquaintances were renewed, and new ones were rade, as Andy
and I sade the rounds through the fest. A Dayton area
proprietor had Sinclair stuff on display in another part of
the center. Paul Holagren had a QL set-up and running one of
the impressive graphics prograas of the Quanta library. That
evening, we went to visit Frank Davis, at a neighboring
aotel where he and Andy had the @L computer running NSDOS.
Sunday was buying day for us and I got ay first QL.
Upgrading from the TS 1000, this is opening a whole new
world for me. Andy got the bug also and bought the Quanta
library. We both left that day with other miscellaneous
software and literature on Sinclair computing. As the day
drew to a close and the sany booths began to come down, we
decided it was time to head out once again on the trip hose.
Pulling out of Dayton, we both had the sense that Sinclair
coaputing is still very auch alive and well, and that sany
new developeaents are even yet to cope.

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PROGRAM FOR TIMEX SINCLAIR
1000, 1500, 2068

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DESIGN MAKER

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This is a short program that turns numbers
from 100 ta 1000 into geometric designs.
Type in the program, enter a number and `
watch what happens!

10 REM DESIGN
20 CLS 3
30 PRINT “INPUT A NUMBER BETWEEN
100 AND 1000". =
40 PRINT “THEN PRESS RETURN”
50 INPUTN
60 CLS
70 FORK=1TON
80 LETR=22*K/N
90 LET A=PI*100*K/N
100 PLOT 32+R*COS A, 22+R*SINA
110 NEXT K
120 PRINT AT 0,0; “DO YOU WANT TO
- . DRAW ANOTHER? (Y/N)”
130 INPUT A$
140 _IF A$=“Y” THEN GOTO 20

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